Ruston Kelly Plots Headlining Brightly Burst Tour

Singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly has announced dates for his headlining Brightly Burst Tour, which will get underway in September 2019. Kelly currently has a few European dates left before a busy festival season that includes stops at Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival and Lollapalooza.

Kicking off September 18th at Songbirds South Stage in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the 22 dates of the Brightly Burst Tour will have Kelly visiting Atlanta, Georgia’s Terminal West, Los Angeles’ Troubadour and then, eventually, New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Singer-songwriter Donovan Woods will support on all dates except for the October 22nd show in Toronto, Ontario.

Kelly’s acclaimed debut album Dying Star was released by Rounder Records in 2018 and chronicled a slow journey to break self-destructive patterns, even managing to find a little humor in the painful process.

“My living situation at the time was so dark and so fucked up that I had to find a way to laugh at it,” Kelly told Rolling Stone in 2018. “That takes the power out. When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.”

Tickets for the Brightly Burst Tour go on sale Friday, May 10th at 10 a.m. local time.